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" I became a Republican in 1951, the first year I could vote. "

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" I'm not afraid to look bad on the screen. "

" I'm a movie maker, but I have the same feelings as the average guy out there. "

" Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands. "

" Everybody is idealistic when you're a kid. "

" I think kids are natural actors. You watch most kids; if they don't have a toy, they'll pick up a stick and make a toy out of it. Kids will daydream all the time. "

" The craving for information is so huge now, and it can be marketed at such a rapid rate. "

" In past generations, people would try to play younger than they really are. My trick is, I don't try to play younger than I really am. "

" Just try not to ingest a lot of fats, and just try to eat carefully. "

" Actors know, with me they aren't going to be allowed to rehearse a scene for a couple of hours and then get away with doing 25 takes before we get it right. So they come with their full bag of tricks. "

" You hear about actors being late and all that sort of stuff, but you never find that with an actor who's directed, because an actor who's directed understands all the problems your production is going through. "

" I just don't like killing creatures. "

" I think 'Dirty Harry' was probably sensitive toward the victims of violent crime. "

" As much as I love the Western genre, I figured if I kept doing those, I'd eventually run out of steam on that, and that would've been the end of it. "

" Every picture has its own demands, and every picture stimulates something within you to tell it a certain way. I don't know what that is; I don't think too much about that. "

" I've taken advantage of a few breaks that came along and moved along with them. "

" I'm just a kid - I've got a lot of stuff to do yet. "

" I'm not one of these guys who sits around saying, 'Gee, I mean, the person had a strange childhood and that's why he's doing this horrible thing. Poor Jeffrey Dahmer. He's just had a bad childhood and that's why he's eating people.' Wait a second! This person should be removed from the planet. "

" When I do a picture and it's 90% black, like 'Bird,' I use 90% black people. "

" I don't really get into a big intellectual analysis of why I am going to do a certain script or not. "

" Everybody accuses me of moving fast when I direct a picture. I don't move fast, but I just keep moving. "

" Prime time for men is, say, 35 to 45. Then they level off and fall off. "

" It's much more fun to play something you're nothing like than what you are... It's much easier to hide yourself in a character. "

" You make a movie, and if somebody reads something into it, then great, more power to him. "

" Everybody thinks making films back to back is a big deal but they did it all the time in the old days. "

" You can't stop everything from happening. But we've gotten to a point where we're certainly trying. If a car doesn't have four hundred air bags in it, then it's no good. "

" I've had no problem harnessing anger. "

" When I did 'Bird,' it was a surprise to some people, first because I wasn't in it and second because most of the films I'd been doing were cop movies or westerns or adventure films, so to be doing one about Charlie Parker, who was a great influence on American music, was a great thrill for me. "

" In school, I could hear the leaves rustle and go on a journey. "

" Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power. "

" I loved the fact that Obama is multi-racial. I thought that was terrific, as my wife is the same racial make-up. "